The 6809 was designed by Terry Ritter. Between 1978-1980 Terry
was a busy boy you will find his imprint on 68K, 6845 (video display
chip) and in his copious amounts of spare time he was active in a
bunch of software projects basic09 a pascal like for the '09.

http://home.netcom.com/~tlindner/Download/Byte_6809_Articles.pdf

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Nate Duehr wrote:

> William Chops Westfield wrote:
>
> > (all that said, I seem to recall that the 6811 and 6809s had
> > quite a successful run in "personal computer" and "educational"
> > markets.  The 6809 appeared in Tandy's Color Computer, and the
> > 6811 in several robotics oriented boards from MIT.  And the
> > earlier 6800 processors had their part in the early days of
> > "home" microcomputers.  I wonder how they managed to screw
> > up SO badly in between then and now...)
>
> Yes, the 6809E was in all three versions of the Tandy Color Computer.
>
> That machine would run Microware OS/9 which is an RTOS that's still
> around today -- proving that good design DOES work, long-term.
>
> Nate
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